Thailand

The Ethics of conducting a placebo-controlled trial when there are effective treatments available, particularly for serious or life threatening diseases, has been debated over the years. The Declaration of Helsinki states that the benefits, risks, burdens and effectiveness of a new intervention must be tested against the best current proven intervention. The exception is when there is no effective treatment available, when the potential harm to subjects receiving no treatment is not serious or…

My mother’s family is from Vientiane, Laos, where they lived in poverty and under a strict communist regime. Towards the end of the Vietnam War they fled to Thailand, and after four years in a refugee camp, come to Hawaii. My Southeast Asian culture is extremely important to me, because I grew up surrounded by people who didn’t know anything about where my family was from. When people told me they had never heard…

Pacific carrier, no battleships were left behind. The Americans were greatly unprepared and were no match for our brave imperial forces. We attacked the beast with a preemptive strike. We easily took Wake island, Guam, Shanghai, the Philippines, and Thailand. Our glorious emperor now rules the waves. Now that we have awakened this sleeping giant, we must be vigilant defending our God-given territory. This means sacrificing your life and being for our emperor. Our brave…

apparent that neither had visited the region of the world and made very general assumptions about the people and their unique and fascinating culture. Instead, they took a very generalized, or “American” worldview of how life is in Siam, or modern day Thailand, and created a show around it. Obviously when Rodgers and Hammerstein were creating this now famous and well known show, they did not intend for it to be as offensive as it is considered now. Rather they wanted to create a musical that…

captures with a self-assertive sense of appreciation, the wonderful assistance and guidance given to the poor and abandoned children who reside at Children’s Village School, a 35-year institution located in a remote jungle of the Kanchanaburi province, Thailand. As an alternative to the public school system and the first democratic school in the country, it gives the opportunity to 150 underprivileged children to experience several tasks, from cooking to art making to cleaning, while learning…

Despite issues within the African American community, some white people and other people of color have a more favorable view of darker skin tones. Some commenters, in the documentary, who had darker skin tones described going to other countries and people of color practically gawking over how beautiful they were. There were also a few white men who described how their African American wives were beautiful and did not have any negative connotations with her darker skin tone. The pivotal part…

“In the 1980s pharmaceutical manufacturers, thinking infectious diseases were essentially conquered, cut back severely on searching for additional antibiotics” (Levy). Unknowingly, people all over the world are promoting the reproduction and spread of multiple-drug resistant bacteria and viruses. Every continent in the world is connected by easily accessible travel which makes infection effortless. There are numerous amounts of methods can slow down this process and keep people healthy. If the…

Introduction Rohingya people, one of the world most persecuted minorities. It is a minority race which is mostly Muslim that live in Myanmar, a country that its main religion is Buddhism. The conflict between the Rohingya and Myanmar has been occurred for a long time, which can be traced back to the 20th century during the time period of World War II. The Rohingya people have been living in Myanmar as early as 12th century according to historians and the Rohingya people. The amount of Rohingya…

On Sunday November 6, 2005, the Myanmese military government officially relocated the national capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw in a rural mountainous valley in southern Mandalay Division. The next day, Myanmar’s Information Minister, General Kyaw Hasan announced that the country’s capital would be a newly established city in Pyinmana District. On March 2, 2006, the new administrative capital in Kyatpyae Village of Pyinmana District was publicly named “Naypyidaw (Nay Pyi Daw). Capital city often…

Economic growth relates to the increased output within an economy. It can come from rural to industrial shifts, invention, innovation and technological progress; it requires savings and investment, along with a well-implemented policy framework and can be measured through the economies GDP. Haggard, (2004) suggested economic growth can result from productive inputs, capital and labour or from greater efficiency in their use. It can lead to economic development, which Michael Todaro (2011)…